Prospect.6 Closing Weekend Itinerary
January 29–February 2, 2025
We are excited to offer a first look at our Official Closing Weekend Itinerary for Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, taking place January 29 to Feburary 2, 2025.
Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, curated by the Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, is on view November 2, 2024—February 2, 2025.
For more information and to plan your trip, visit here.
Itinerary
Ongoing
11am - 5pm
The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center at Merchant House Open
Merchant House, 1150 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
P.6 artist Ronald Cyrille aka B.Bird’s installation open to VIP/Early Access ticket holders only
The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center at Merchant House serves as a hub for Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, the sixth iteration of the city-wide art exhibition Prospect New Orleans. View work by P.6 artist Ronald Cyrille aka B.Bird and purchase exhibition readers to help navigate P.6 venues across town. Shop Prospect’s new merch collection featuring limited edition collabs with emerging designers.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
12pm - 3pm
Seeding The Future
Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Dr New Orleans, LA 70125
Open to the Public | RSVP Required
Seeding The Future expands on P.6 artist Tuan Mami’s Vietnamese Immigrating Garden project and research about Vietnamese immigrant communities across the globe, from Europe and Asia to America. During this community centered activation, Tuan Mami invites the public to gather with elders from New Orleans’ Vietnamese community to share stories and create seed pods as a symbol of hope for people who have been disconnected from their land and culture.
This event is sponsored by the Office of International Education, Xavier University of Louisiana.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
5pm - 7pm
P.6 Catalogue Mixer
Art Conscious, 6601 St Claude Ave, Arabi, LA 70032
Open to the Public | RSVP Required
Preview the catalogue for Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, the sixth iteration of the city-wide art exhibition Prospect. Attendees will get a sneak peek into the P.6 catalogue alongside contributing writers and have the opportunity to pre-order the publication that will be released in April 2025.
Friday, January 31, 2025
6pm - 8pm
P.6 Artist Deborah Jack and the Diaphanous Ensemble
UNO St. Claude Gallery, 2429 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
Open to the Public | RSVP Required
P.6 Artist Deborah Jack, in partnership with UNO St. Claude Gallery and the Diaphanous Ensemble, invites audiences to contemplate how sound and poetry meld to create our collective memories of home. Jack will lead visitors through an immersive, aural experience of her six-channel video installation accompanied by the experimental, string-forward collective, Diaphanous Ensemble and local New Orleans sound artist Cory Diane.
7:30pm - 9pm
Reverence to the Refugee featuring P.6 Artist Christian Việt Ðinh
VIET (Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training), 13435 Granville Street, New Orleans, LA 70129
Limited Capacity | RSVP Required
P.6 Artist Christian Việt Ðinh, in partnership with VIET, will host an intimate gathering of Vietnamese community leaders in New Orleans East for an evening of storytelling. Enjoy Vietnamese desserts while mingling with the honorees as they trace their journeys from Vietnam to the Gulf South.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
10:30am -11:30am
P.6 Artist Brooke Pickett In Conversation with P.6 Co-Artistic Director Miranda Lash
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Open to the Public | RSVP Required
P.6 Artist Brooke Pickett will be in conversation with P.6 Co-Artistic Director Miranda Lash about her series of paintings What To Eat, What to Drink, What To Leave for Poison, showing on the 4th floor of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The seven paintings included in the exhibition center the performance of female domesticity in the face of ecological disaster. Pulling from traditional on womanhood, domesticity, and the concept that a woman’s work is to make hard things beautiful, tolerable, and digestible, the new work addresses themes of climate change, homemaking, materiality, mourning, and rebuilding.
1pm - 2pm
P.6 Artistic Directors Talk
Georges Auditorium, Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70122
Open to the Public | RSVP Required
Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson discuss and reflect on Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home.
9pm -11pm
On Flashing Lights | Sound, Light, and Dance Performance by P.6 Artist Brendan Fernandes
Poor Boys Bar, 1328 Saint Bernard Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70116
Free and Open to the Public | RSVP Encouraged
P.6 Artist Brendan Fernandes will present the US debut of his light and sound installation, On Flashing Lights, originally presented in 2018 as part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. DJ Bouffant Bouffant, host of Gimme a Reason, will provide a special set as partygoers dance in the uneasy glow of police lights, signaling the historical tensions between law enforcement and queer, immigrant, and racialized communities.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 | Closing Day
9am - 6pm
Memory and Mythmaking: Filipinx American Histories of St. Malo with P.6 Artist Stephanie Syjuco
Music Box Village, 4557 North Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
St. Malo Site, St. Malo Indian Mound St. Bernard, LA 70085
Limited Capacity | RSVP Required
P.6 Artist Stephanie Syjuco, in partnership with Bayou Barkada and Dr. Randy Gonzales, invites you to a panel and excursion examining Syjuco’s project for P.6 and Filipinx and African descended histories. The featured panelists are P.6 Artist Stephanie Syjuco, sound artist Alex Abalos, and the music and photography of multimedia artist Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes. Director of the Neighborhood Story Project and P.5 artist Dr. Rachel Breunlin will moderate.
Bayou Barkada will initiate the program by offering participants the opportunity to experience an ancestral walk and healing ritual led by Filipinx members of Bayou Barkada. Syjuco and multimedia artist Alex Abalos will lead a panel at the Music Box Village.
Boat Trip to St. Malo
The program will culminate in a journey to the St. Malo area. Charter boats will be provided by Captain Jimmy Corley and The Waterfowl Specialist. There is limited capacity for the boat trip to St. Malo and 16 spaces will be provided for participants. There is a $65 fee to participate and lunch/drinks will be provided for $15.
